Donald "Don" Featherstone (January 25, 1936 – June 22, 2015) was an
American artist most widely known for his 1957 creation of the plastic pinkflamingo while working for Union Products. Featherstone resided in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, where he kept 57 plastic flamingos on his front lawn. ... Jump up
^ "Don Featherstone, creator of pink flamingo lawn ornament, dies ...

Jun 23, 2015 ... Mr. Featherstone's first pink plastic flamingo came off the assembly line in 1957.
... Union Products, a maker of plastic lawn ornaments in Leominster, Mass. ... wife
, Nancy, often got when she told people what he had invented.